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No. 400,234. edM ar. 26, 1889.

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NITED STATES ATENLT OFFICE.

CHARLES N. LEONARD, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

TYPE-WRITER CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,234, dated March 26, 1889.-

Application filed September 18, 1888- Serial No. 285,737. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

3e it known that 1, CHARLES N. LEONARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Type-Vriter Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in cabinets for type-writing machines.

The object of my improvement is, in a cabinet for holding a type-writing m achine,which shall form a neat piece of office furniture and shall be adapted to cover the machine when not in use and to support it in proper position for use, to provide means whereby the top of said cabinet, which forms a table for ordinary writing when the machine is covered, may be automatically raised without disturbing any papers or material which may lie thereon out of the way of the machine by the act of drawing the machine into working position, all as hereinafter fully explained.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. I

Figure 1 represents a front elevation showing the cabinet open; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same at 3, Fig. 1, the type-writer being shown in dotted lines; Fig. 3, a vertical section at 2, Fig. 1, showingthe cabinet closed. Fig. 4 represents a partial elevation, on an enlarged scale, of a detail at the line at, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents a plan of the under side of the type-writer table. Fig. 6 represents a detail plan, on an enlarged scale, of the catch lever for locking the type-writer table in. position. Fig. 7 represents a plan of the under side of the typewriter table, showing a different form of catch for fastening the table in position. Figs. 8 and 9 represent different modifications of the cover-lifting mechanism.

A A are vertical wooden walls forming the sides of the cabinet. Said side walls are connected by a back wall, B, and a cross-bar, 0, thus forming a box=like structure having an open front. The top of the cabinet is furnished with a cover, D, which rests on the upper ends of the side walls,-and is movably connected therewith at each end by links 6 e and f f. Said links are pivoted at h 71 to the inner sides of the side walls and at t a? to the under side of the cover.

For the purpose of preventing any lateral swaying of the cover when raised, the links f g f are rigidly connected together by a crossbar, g.

H is the type-writer table, which is of suitable length to nicely fill the space between the side walls. Secured to opposite ends of table H is a pair of like brackets, I I. One arm of each of said brackets is rigidly secured to the under side of table H, and the ends of the other arms are pivoted at y' j to the inner sides of walls A A, near the front edge thereof. The table II is connected with the cover.

D by means of one or more links, L L, which are each pivoted at one end to the under side of the cover at 7;, and pivoted at the other end to the outer angle of the bracket I, the arrangement being such that the GOVQI' is raised or lowered by the swinging of the table outward or inward. Table H is held in position when swung outward bymeans of a stop, m, secured to the side wall, and which limits its outward movement, and a catch-lever, n, pivoted to the under side of the table and arranged to engage a stop, 0, secured to the sidewall, A, thus preventing the table from swinging inward. Catch-lever n is held normally outward, so as to engage stop 0, by a spring, 13. For greater security two catch-levers may be used, one on each end of the table, and said catch-levers are then connected, so as to be operated simultaneously, by means of a forked rod, 1, as in Fig. 5, or a lever, s, as in Fig. 6. In the modification shown in Fig. 8 the points of attachment of the links 6 and f are extended downward from the cover, so that the links do not appear above the side walls. In the modification shown in Fig. 9 upright standards 15 t are substituted for the links 6 and f, said standards being secured to the under side of the cover and arranged to slide in grooves u u in the side walls, A.

The operation of my device is as follows: The type-writer having been permanently secured to the top of table H and the cabinet being closed, as in Fig. 3, the back edge of the table meets and rests against the front edge of cross bar O,While the front edge of the table meets the under side of the cover D. The writer is thus completely inclosed and out of the way of the operator, and the top of the cover may be used as a desk for ordinary writing. When it is desired to use the type-writer, table H is swung forward on the pivots j j until the catch-lever or engages stop 0. At the same time cover D, by the movement of table H, brackets I I, and links 6, f, and L, is raised and moved backward to the position shown in Fig. 2, thus keeping the front edge of the cover out of the way of the type-writer.

It will be observed that the cover 1) maintains a horizontal position at all times, and the necessity heretofore existing in this class of cabinets for removing papers used in ordinary writing from the cover before opening the cabinet is thus avoided. In the modified form shown in Fig. 9 the cover, instead of moving upward and backward, moves upward only.

I claim as my invention 1. A cabinet consisting of the following elements, namely: a pair of side walls suitably connected, so as to bear a fixed relation to each other, a substantially horizontal movablecover arranged to close the opening between said side walls at the top, a swinging table arranged below said cover between said walls and pivoted thereto, folding supports connecting the cover with the side walls, and intermediate connecting mechanism connecting said cover and table, all combined and arranged to co-operate substantially as specified, whereby the cover is raised and lowered in a substantially horizontal position by the swinging movement of the table.

2. A cabinet consisting of the following elements namely: a pair of side walls suitably connected, so as to bear a fixed relation to each other, a substantially horizontal movable cover arranged to close the opening between said side walls at the top, folding supports connecting the cover with the side walls, whereby the cover is held in a horizontal posit-ion when raised, and a swinging table aranged below said cover between the side walls, pivoted thereto and arranged to swing outward therefrom, all combined and arranged to co-operate, substantially as specified, to form a table adapted to support a type-writer in position for use and an inclosed receptacle for the same when not in use.

In a typewriter cabinet, the combina tion, with a cabinet having a movable top and an open front, of the brackets I I, pivoted at one end to the opposed interiors of the side walls of the cabinet, arranged to swing toward the front edge thereof, and having the table H rigidly secured to their free ends and extending from wall to wall, and suitable stops arranged to limit the swinging movement of the brackets, whereby the table is projected outward from the front of the cabinet to form a horizontal support for a typewriter and withdrawn to form an inclined front cover for the upper portion of the cabinet, substantially as specified.

CHARLES N. LEONARD.

Witnesses:

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